Need a workout ?
Posted on December 15, 2008
If living in Hawaii is a dream for many, dealing with flash floods and landslides is not what most people think about our islands.
It all happened very fast, just a few days ago on December 11th at 5.30 AM.
The heavens opened up to torrential rain causing extensive flash flooding and a landslide
just on top of my property. Within minutes a river of mud, rocks and other detritus run
into my sloppy backyard and towards my front gate. I did not realize that the mud and branches will get stuck at the gate and therefore stop the proper flow of the mud and water. The water level rose so fast that in no time it runs into my workshop, flooding machinery, lumber, templates etc.
Towards 10.oo PM the rain stopped and it is only than that the extend of the damage
caused by the flash flood became apparent to me. My yard was filled with 2 feet of mud.
my pick-up truck was stuck in the mud, so was another car, my drive-way was busted
and the roots of a gigantic Albizia tree were laid bare.
First thing first, I immediately started to pump out the one foot of water that had flooded
my workshop and installed fans and heaters to dry some motors . But clearing the mud and rocks will take days. I guess that at the rate of 2 hours a day this will be a good and
cost free workout. Want to join ?
Flooded table saw, planer etc.
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Upgraded website, Flickr and Picasa Album
Posted on December 10, 2008
The reason for my long absence writing on my blog was due to me upgrading my website
and starting work on my Flickr and Picasa photos albums. Both the Flickr and the Picasa albums run under the username “hawaiiancanoes”. The entire process of tending to those 3 sites at the same time while still carrying on building models was taking the better of a 3 months period during which I had to sort out literally thousands of pictures and write tens of captions. Some people who want to create a website complain of the lack of professional photos to embellish or illustrate their site. I had fantastic pictures, but before I could make use of them I had to sort them out and file them according to subject matter. So here I was, creating sets and albums with piles of photos before I could create sets and albums on Flickr. As for the caption to the images on the website or Flickr, some were easy to write while others required me to dig into nautical dictionaries to find out again what is the maritime word for “ steps” on a ship. I have to admit that writing good captions is a difficult exercise. All this work led me to forgo my yearly participation at the 2008 Hawaiian Juried Woodshow, but I tried somehow to make up for my absence to
this art show by illustrating the exhibited work of my colleagues on Flickr.
There are still bugs to be sorted out on my website and photos to be added on Flickr,
the work is never finished, but at least, for now, I can start spending most of my time
researching and building canoes that have sailed on all the corners of the Pacific.
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